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AUCKLAND CASTLE

BISHOP AUCKLAND.

Nov. 12^th 1895

My Dear Sir,

Allow me to thank you for the copy of your address.¹ No scheme is more attractive than ‘Home Colonisation’. I followed Mr. Mills² experiment at Starnthwaite with deep interest and made a very modest subscription towards it; but its history has not been [2] encouraging if I may judge from a correspondence in one of the Labour journals which was sent to me. These are ^{movement is beset by} two difficulties which at present seem to be insuperable. There is a want of leaders; and it appears to be impossible to turn people who have experienced the excitements of the town back to the country. Still I must look hopefully on the endeavour. I have often [3] pleaded that some of our retired officers should lead Colonies. But all my experience, as I was saying last week, convinces me that spiritual forces alone were adequate to overcome the evils which we deplore.

Yrs most faithfully | W³ [illeg.] [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq LL. D. FRS &c &c

I omitted to enclose an [4] address which explains generally my own view[.]